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Queer Up Duck Comedy Showcase
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Friday 1 Nov
Squire Performing Arts Centre
7.30pm
Queer Up Duck Brings together some of the funniest LGBTQ+ comedians from across the region, featuring headliner Alex Mitchell who recently appeared in the final of Britain’s Got Talent! See the full line-up below.
Hosted by Dan Webber
Presented in Partnership with Nottingham Comedy Festival and LOL-qbtq+ at The Lord Roberts.
Katie Mitchell
Katie was selected for Best in Class at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, shortlisted for BBC New Comedy Award, has supported Andrew O’Neill on tour and recently headlined Chippenham Comedy Club. Katie has a cult following across festivals such as Nottingham and Leicester, for her deeply surreal, whimsical, gothic and LGBTQIA+ stand up comedy shows.
“Katie Mitchell is an example of everything comedy should be” - Mark Dean Quinn
Juliette Burton
Juliette has performed seven solo shows, When I Grow Up, Look At Me, Decision Time, Butterfly Effect, Defined, No Brainer and Hopepunk, at the Edinburgh Fringe, selling out 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2023. She has won the Argus Angel Award (Brighton Fringe), Spirit Of The Fringe Award (Bedfringe) and Voice Mag’s Pick Of The Fringe Award (Edinburgh Fringe). She has also performed at Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Juliette is an ambassador for Rethink Mental Illness. Juliette is currently on tour with her critically acclaimed show Hopepunk.
Alex Mitchell
Alex Mitchell is a queer, autistic, disabled comic who uses self-deprecating humour and observational material to create a hilarious but heart-warming atmosphere wherever he performs. Laughing at himself, his neurodivergence, disability and sexuality – to reflect on some of the most difficult subjects within his own life and wider society, Mitchell is a truly “Funny and fearless” comic.
Alex appeared on the 2024 series of Britain’s Got Talent, reaching the final after winning his semi by public vote (the only comic to do so). All three of his Britain’s Got Talent performances have individually amassed tens of thousands of views online. Since then, he has appeared on Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and Heart Radio Breakfast.
Laura Monmoth
Laura Monmoth, Award-winning comedian. Player of bad games. Occasional speedrunner. Quiz host. Nostalgia-fuelled idiot. Creator of the cursed. Also, puppets and a cat named Clive, is a Multimedia marvel.
Mixing slide projections, animations and channelling the energy of comedy greats to deliver first class comedy on everything from retro gaming to gender issues. Expect references to 90s pop culture, karaoke, on, and probably puppets. Niche enough for Gen X'ers that remember their childhood, and accessible enough for those who just want to laugh.
Friz Frizzle
Friz Frizzle is going to ruin your favourite songs. Armed with a piano, they'll take the tunes you know and love and mess around with them until you don't want to know or love them anymore. It's better than it sounds.
"A master of musical comedy" - Comedy Central.
Winner of the Leicester Comedy Festival Award 2020.
Aisha Amanduri
Aisha Amanduri is a south London based comedian from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. A Funny Women One-To-Watch (2023), and a Runner-up Bath New Act (2024), when she isn't explaining that Kazakhstan is a real place, she's frolicking around the London comedy circuit and co-hosting Angel Comedy Club's women and non-binary night Material Girls.